Suddenly
There's not half the files there used to be,
And there's a milestone hanging over me.
The system crashed so suddenly.
I pushed something wrong.
What it was I could not say.
Now all my data's gone
and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.
Yesterday
The need for backups seemed so far away;
I knew my data was all here to stay.
Now I believe in yesterday
All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
Guru MacKenzie
Typing the lines of a program no one will run;
Isn't it fun?
Look at him working,
Munching some chips as he waits for the code to compile;
It takes a while...
All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
Eleanor Rigby
Crashes the system and loses six hours of work;
Feels like a jerk.
Guru MacKenzie
Wiping the crumbs off the keys as he types in the code;
Nothing will load.
All the lonely users, where do they all come from?
All the lonely users, why does it take so long?
Knows the blocksize from du (1)
Cares not where /dev/null goes to
Isn't he a bit like you
And me?
UNIX Man, please listen (2)
My lpd (8) is missin'
UNIX Man
The wo-o-o-orld is at (1) your command.
He's as wise as he can be
Uses lex and yacc and C
UNIX Man, can you help me At all?
UNIX Man, don't worry
Test with time (1), don't hurry
UNIX Man
The new kernel boots, just like you had planned.
He's a real UNIX Man
Sitting in his UNIX LAN
Making all his UNIX plans
For nobody...
Making all his UNIX plans
For nobody.
As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers:
"Write in C."
Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, oh, write in C.
COBOL's dead and buried,
Write in C.
I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
For science it worked flawlessly.
Try using it for graphics!
Write in C.
If you've just spent nearly 30 hours,
Debugging some assembly,
Soon you will be glad to
Write in C.
Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, yeah, write in C.
BASIC's not the answer,
Write in C.
Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, oh, write in C.
Pascal won't quite cut it.
Write in C.
Somewhere in the memory I know,
A pointer's got to be corrupted.
Stepping in the debugger will show me...
I don't want to leave it now
I'm to close to leave it now.
You're asking me can this code go?
I don't know, I don't know...
What sequence causes it to blow?
I don't know, I don't know...
Something in the initializing code?
And all I have to do is thinking of it!
Something in the listing will show me...
I don't want to leave it now
I'll fix this tonight I vow!
I don't know what it's all for.
I think I'll need a restore
To make me feel all right.
It's been a Hard Disk Night
The file system's in a mess.
It's been a Hard Disk Night
Live's crashed and so has test.
But no-one comes to my aid,
I'm very glad we've got RAID,
I might just feel all right.